
What causes battery electrode failure? Most complete research published
Battery researchers at Virginia Tech co-led an international study that detailed the broadest understanding of what happens during battery electrode failure.

Battery researchers at Virginia Tech co-led an international study that detailed the broadest understanding of what happens during battery electrode failure.

Even when our bodies rest, millions of neuronal cells in our brains are active, firing electrical impulses. Most of the time, these signals are elegantly harmonized through circuits composed of many cells.

Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-04) announced a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to Virginia Commonwealth University for the study of lung diseases for $181,005.

Liz Johnson, a professor of geology and environmental science at James Madison University, was among the researchers who made a groundbreaking discovery of how volcanoes formed in the area of Bermuda.

The Virginia Tech Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center, located in Blackstone, is working to ensure that the state’s tobacco crop and producers continue to thrive.

Emotion-related conversations among family members and the potential impact it can have on the socio-emotional development of children is the focus of Erika Hernandez’s research and doctoral dissertation.

If researchers knew what kept farmers from adopting natural methods to grow healthier plants and vanquish pests, curbing hunger worldwide might be more feasible. That assumption underpins a new joint research project at Virginia Tech.

Warren Bickel, the Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Health Research Professor, received the Scientific Translation Award from SABA on Saturday.

Ronald B. Gartenhaus, M.D., an expert in molecular and structural biology and an accomplished cancer researcher, has been named the inaugural director of a new cancer center at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

A groundbreaking research collaboration at the UVA School of Medicine that is shedding light on everything from cancer to diabetes to cardiovascular disease has received $12.5 million from the National Institutes of Health.
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